Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 77

So, when it was dark, he went to Obim and told her that if she came to him he would make her very happy, as he had plenty of slaves who would do all the hard work and she would not have to toil in the sun. Obim, however, would not listen to him, so in the end the chief went away more vexed than before and more determined than ever to get hold of Obim, somehow or other.

Who acts: gun, NYAMBI, OBIM, slaves, chief · What happens: be, go, tell, come, make, have · To what, where: Obim, NYAMBI, plenty, hard work, sun. Obim, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gun, NYAMBI, OBIM, slaves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 dark	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dark	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 dark	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dark	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	cop
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Obim	case
11	Obim	Obim	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 make	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 make	aux
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	ccomp
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 happy	advmod
26	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 make	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 make	parataxis
31	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 slaves	case
33	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 plenty	nmod
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 do	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 do	aux
36	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 slaves	acl:relcl
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 work	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 work	det
39	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 work	amod
40	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 do	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 have	cc
42	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 have	nsubj
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 have	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 have	advmod
45	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 toil	mark
47	toil	toil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 have	xcomp
48	in	in	ADP	_	51 Obim	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Obim	det
50	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Obim	compound
51	Obim	Obim	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 toil	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 listen	punct
53	however	however	ADV	_	57 listen	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 however	punct
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 listen	aux
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 listen	advmod
57	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 make	conj
58	to	to	ADP	_	59 him	case
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 listen	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 went	punct
61	so	so	ADV	_	67 went	advmod
62	in	in	ADP	_	64 end	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 end	det
64	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 went	obl
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 chief	det
66	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 went	nsubj
67	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	advcl
68	away	away	ADV	_	70 vexed	advmod
69	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	70 vexed	advmod
70	vexed	vexed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 went	xcomp
71	than	than	ADP	_	72 before	case
72	before	before	ADV	_	70 vexed	obl
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 determined	cc
74	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	75 determined	advmod
75	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 went	conj
76	than	than	SCONJ	_	79 get	mark
77	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	79 get	advmod
78	to	to	PART	_	79 get	mark
79	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	75 determined	ccomp
80	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 get	obj
81	of	of	ADP	_	82 Obim	case
82	Obim	Obim	PROPN	Number=Sing	80 hold	nmod
83	,	,	PUNCT	_	84 somehow	punct
84	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	79 get	advmod
85	or	or	CCONJ	_	86 other	cc
86	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	84 somehow	conj
87	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	gun					dark property	tree rules
2	go	past	NYAMBI			Obim			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to obim=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert	past	NYAMBI not said here		OBIM				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come a condition, not said to happen	past	OBIM		NYAMBI				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
5	make	would	NYAMBI	OBIM				happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product
6	have	past	NYAMBI	plenty of slaves					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
7	do	would	slaves	all hard work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
8	not have	would	OBIM						tree rules
9	toil	to-infinitive	OBIM not said here			the sun. Obim			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in obim=Trajectory
10	not listen	would	NYAMBI not said here		NYAMBI			however property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
11	go	past	the chief				in the end	vexed property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in end=Location
12	get	to-infinitive	the chief not said here	hold of Obim			ever	somehow property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus
13	hold			Obim					nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 77